Re: perspective regarding documented problem in NetBSD 5.0

[Andrew Gould <andrewlylegould%gmail.com@localhost>]

On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 12:47 AM, Michael van Elst 
<mlelstv%serpens.de@localhost>wrote:

> andrewlylegould%gmail.com@localhost (Andrew Gould) writes:
>
> >I read the following statement in the Release Notes for NetBSD 5.0:
> >"Statically linked binaries using pthreads are currently broken."
>
> >I'm pretty ignorant regarding pthreads.  Is this something I should worry
> >about?  (I'm not a programmer.)
>
> No. If you find a statically linked binary that uses pthreads, then
> keep us informed :)
>
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So I take it that statically linked binaries are not common?

Thanks,

Andrew